Word: request
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...November President Hoover will appear before Congress to request a change in the Prohibition...
...days after the hearings recessed, the I. C. C. announced that, in accordance with the railroads' request, the date for opening the opposition would be advanced three weeks to Aug. 10. Other hearings scheduled were at: Portland, Me. (Aug. 4), Portland, Ore. (Aug. 12), San Francisco (Aug. 17), Atlanta (Aug. 17), Dallas (Aug. 21), Salt Lake City (Aug. 24), Kansas City (Aug. 26), Chicago (Aug. 31). Shippers were instructed to keep their argument on a broad basis and not single out individual roads for attack. The tenor of the opposition was to be, apparently, that the roads would...
France did not forget. Even before the statesmen in London had packed their portfolios, the French Foreign Office sent a message to Geneva. Officially it was an answer to the League's request for information and suggestions to facilitate the approaching conference. Actually it was a statement and a warning to the rest of the world, setting forth very clearly France's position on disarmament. The French seemed to have Messrs. Hoover and Stimson much in mind. To make sure that there would be no misunderstanding of their position in English-speaking countries the English text...
...services for Virginia. Surgeon General Hugh Smith Cumming of the U. S. Public Health Service is also a Virginian, and such an assignment was not without precedent. Dr. Thomas Parran Jr., another Assistant Surgeon General, has been New York State's Health Commissioner the past year, at request of Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In the past, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Hawaii, Milwaukee, Chicago, also Peru, Ecuador* and other foreign countries, have similarly gone to the Government for medical help...
Viscount Rothermere, London publisher who had posted a $10,000 prize for the first flight from the U. S. to Hungary, promptly telegraphed the money to Premier Bethlen with a request to hand it to the flyers...